LMP demands details of planned cuts impacting municipalities

Opposition LMP has called on the government to "come clean" and reveal how much funding it is planning to "take away from local councils". LMP co-leader Mate Kanasz-Nagy said on Friday that the government should also drop plans to suspend the local business tax and provide substantial help for municipalities and households instead. Suspending business tax payments would deprive municipalities of revenues, "forcing some of them to turn off street lighting, close kindergartens or stop public transport," he insisted. He also said that small and medium-sized businesses would benefit more from "targeted forms of assistance" such as interest-free loans than from the business tax exemption.